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Teaching History 28
Journal
Editorial, 2
Notes on Contributors, 3
The Teaching History Imaginative Writing Competition 1980, 3
Why History - the Teachers - Peter Carpenter, 6
History 16-19, 8
Profile: Peggy Bryant - Martin Booth, 9
How I taught history - Sinclair Atkins, 11
Practical Points on Teaching History to less-able secondary pupils,...
Teaching History 28
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Building an overview of the historic roots of antisemitism
Teaching History article
‘But I still don't get why the Jews': using cause and change to answer pupils' demand for an overview of antisemitism
Research by the Centre for Holocaust Education has suggested that students need and want more help with building an overview of the historical roots of antisemitism and that they...
Building an overview of the historic roots of antisemitism
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Teaching History 31
Journal
Editorial, 2
List of Historical Association Area Education Advisers, 3
The 'Records Road Show' or Documents in Essex Classrooms - Ian Mason, 4
Schooling the Local Historian - Gareth Elwyn Jones, 7
Local History Teaching and the Ordinary Child - R. D. Woodall, 10
Lincolnshire Teachers' Views on a 16...
Teaching History 31
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Helping Year 9 debate the purposes of genocide education
Teaching History article
Connecting the dots: helping Year 9 to debate the purposes of Holocaust and genocide education
Why do we teach about the Holocaust and about other genocides? The Holocaust has been a compulsory part of the English National Curriculum since 1991; however, curriculum documents say little about why pupils should learn...
Helping Year 9 debate the purposes of genocide education
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Teachng History 40
Journal
Editorial 2
`On Monday I Took Back the Armour and the Video's, Ross Lee and Richard Davis 3
Committed Historiography and History Teaching in Nigerian Secondary Schools, Noel A. Ihebuzor 8
Report: Historical Consciousness and Identity, Charles Hannam 11
The European Dimension and German History, T.C. Lewis 12
Outstanding History...
Teachng History 40
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Teaching History 44
Journal
Editorial
Grade Criteria: opportunity or impending disaster? - R. Ben Jones
Domesday Book - past and present, John Fines and Jon Nichol
An Appreciation of Joe Hunt
Childwrite, Teresa Clark
Computer Update
The Teaching of Irish History in the Secondary School, Roger Swift
The Contributors
Town and Country in the...
Teaching History 44
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Teaching History 51
Journal
Editorial - Continuity, Coherence and Consistency 2
News 3
Articles:
Celebrating the Solstice: A 'History through Drama' Teaching Project on the Iron Age - Jayne Woodhouse and Viv Wilson 10
The Big Push: Active Learning in the Humanities - Jason King, John Cox and Sue Dymoke 15
Problem Solving in...
Teaching History 51
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Teaching History 52
Journal
Editorial 2
News 3
Articles:
Controversial Women - Hilary Bourdillas and Paula Bartley 10
Sources for Course - Malcolm Pearce 15
A Level History: On Historical Facts, and Other Problems - Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley 19
The End of British History - Stephen Howarth 25
Renewed School History: An...
Teaching History 52
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Teaching History 55
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
Empathy and History - Ann Low-Beer
Some Reflections on Empathy in History - John Cairns
Reflections on the Empathy Debate - Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley
Pupils and the Professional Historian - Neil De Marco
Some Comments on the Future of Integrated or Modular Humanities Courses in Schools -...
Teaching History 55
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Waking up to complexity
Teaching History article
Waking up to complexity: using Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers to challenge over-determined causal explanations
Teaching student to construct causal argument is a staple of history teaching and, in this year, questions about the causes of the First World War are particularly pertinent and once again the public eye. Claire Holliss,...
Waking up to complexity
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Polychronicon 154: Elizabeth I
Teaching History feature
Elizabeth I is admired today for her power dressing and her power portraits; her political acumen and her success in a man's world.
The adulation of Elizabeth started during her own lifetime when she was praised as a goddess and even as a celestial power. Elizabeth's semi-mythical status is reflected...
Polychronicon 154: Elizabeth I
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Cunning Plan 154: Who is buried in the box?
Teaching History feature
Question: Who is buried in the box?
Seeking a new and exciting way to introduce my Year 7 students to history, I looked to a practical solution. Ian Dawson once used a Thinking History exercise where students looked at the idea of ‘layers of history'. It was useful in structuring...
Cunning Plan 154: Who is buried in the box?
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Period, place and mental space
Teaching History article
Period, place and mental space: using historical scholarship to develop Year 7 pupils' sense of period
What is a sense of period? And how can pupils' sense of period be developed? Questions such as these have troubled history teachers for many years, often revolving around debates over the role played by...
Period, place and mental space
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Teaching History 67
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 History for Ordinary Children - Terry Haydn
11 'Real Books' and Interpretations of History' in the National Curriculum - Hugh D. J. Nicklin
17 'Just for Laughs?' The History Day as an Experiment in Cross-phase Learning - Derek Peaple
22 The Valence House Project - John Ubsdell and Gillian Gillespie
24 Instuctional...
Teaching History 67
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Developing awareness of the need to select evidence
Teaching History article
Let's play Supermarket ‘Evidential' Sweep: developing students' awareness of the need to select evidence
Despite having built a sustained focus on historical thinking into their planning for progression across Years 7 to 13, Rachel Foster and Sarah Gadd remained frustrated with stubborn weaknesses in the evidential thinking of students in...
Developing awareness of the need to select evidence
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Teaching History 70
The HA's journal for history teachers
9 Change and Continuity: Some Reflections on the First Year's Implementation of Key Stage 3 History in the National Curriculum - Robert Phillips
13 Implementing the National Curriculum, Term 1 - Ruth Watts
17 History Tasks at Key Stage 3: A Survey from Five Schools - Peter D. John
20...
Teaching History 70
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Teaching History 72
The HA's journal for history teachers
11 Using the Attainment Targets in Key Stage 2: AT2, 'Interpretations of History' - Pam Harper
14 Using the Attainment Targets in Key Stage 3: AT2, 'Interpretations of History' - Tony McAleavy
18 A Way of Looking at History: Local-National-World Links - Sylvia L. Collicott
23 Deja vu - The...
Teaching History 72
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Teaching History 74
The HA's journal for history teachers
7 The Aims of School History - John White
10 Beyond the Old Dichotomies: Some Reflections on Hayden White - Keith Jenkins
17 Teaching Post-Modern History: A Rational Proposition for the Classroom? - Peter Brickley
23 What is the Future for the History National Curriculum? - Frances M. Connelly
27...
Teaching History 74
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Teaching History 77
The HA's journal for history teachers
6 History, Autonomy and Education or History Helps Your Students Be Autonomous Five Ways (with apologies to PAL dog food) - Peter Lee
11 Theory and Practice Essay: The Use of Resources and Teaching Aids in the Teaching of History, with particular reference to Year Eight - Elizabeth Danks
16...
Teaching History 77
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Teaching History 78
The HA's journal for history teachers
5 Using History to Develop Citizenship Education in the National Curriculum - Peter John and Ian Davies
8 Developing a Multicultural Perspective Within Key Stage 3 National Curriculum History - Paul Bracey
11 History Education in a Democratic South Africa- Peter Kallaway
17 History Teaching and the Council of Europe -...
Teaching History 78
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Teaching History 82
The HA's journal for history teachers
6 Project Chata: Concepts of History and Teaching Approaches at Key Stages 2 and 3 - Peter Lee, Alaric Dickinson and Rosalyn Ashby
12 History, Economics, Economic History and Economic Awareness - Peter J. Rogers
20 GCSE History: A Case for Revolution - John Checketts
23 History 14-19: Challenges and Opportunities...
Teaching History 82
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Teaching History 84
The HA's journal for history teachers
4 Viewpoint - Grant Bage
6 Great Britons? An Appraisal of Some Historical Personalities in Key Stage 2 - Peter Vass
10 History and Technology at Key Stage Two: A Practical Partnership- Paul Taylor
15 From Collingwood to the Teaching of Historical Thinking- Teresa Maclsaac
19 'A Concept Quite Alien'?...
Teaching History 84
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Triumphs Show 148.2: using pupil dialogue to encourage engagement with sources
Teaching History feature
Using pupil dialogue to encourage sophisticated engagement with source material - even at GCSE!
Frustrated by the mechanistic approach that their pupils were using when working with historical sources, Tim Jenner and Paul Nightingale sought to experiment with a method of teaching sources which eschewed practice source questions in favour...
Triumphs Show 148.2: using pupil dialogue to encourage engagement with sources
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New, Novice or Nervous? 153: Good Enquiry Questions
Teaching History feature
This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Every problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don't exist. But if you discover others' writing, you'll soon find - and want to join - something better: an international conversation in which...
New, Novice or Nervous? 153: Good Enquiry Questions
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Bringing Rwanda into the classroom
Teaching History article
A short 20 years: meeting the challenges facing teachers who bring Rwanda into the classroom
As the twentieth anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda approaches, Mark Gudgel argues that we should face the challenges posed by teaching about Rwanda. Drawing on his experience as a history teacher in the...
Bringing Rwanda into the classroom
